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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 10:57 AM
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Reports: 9/11 clue hid in Tampa (Note Gen. Franks I believe was in Tampa
Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 11:04 AM by wakeme2008
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/10/Worldandnation/Reports__911_clue_hid.shtml

Reports: 9/11 clue hid in Tampa

A lawmaker says a Special Operations Command unit identified terrorist Mohammed Atta before the attacks.

By PAUL DE LA GARZA, Times Staff Writer
Published August 10, 2005

TAMPA - Congress and the Sept. 11 Commission have launched multiple investigations into reports that the Special Operations Command in Tampa held back information that could have foiled the 9/11 plot, officials said Tuesday.

The fast-paced developments were in response to information provided by Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., vice chairman of the Armed Services Committee and the Homeland Security Committee.

Weldon said a secret military unit known as "Able Danger" discovered a year before the attacks that ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers were in the United States.

Weldon said the unit - created at SOCom under a classified directive in 1999 to take out al-Qaida targets - identified Atta and the others as likely members of the organization.

In fall 2000, the unit recommended SOCom share the information with the FBI, Weldon said in an interview Tuesday.

..more at link....

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Aminal Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:04 AM
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1. Here's a clue
U.S. congresswoman Nancy Pelosi stated:
We now know Bushes were behind 9-11 and the murders of 3,000 Americans, but if we tell the people, there will be a revolution and we will all be hung.
HERE


LET THEM EAT CAKE, EH?
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SimpleMan Donating Member (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:16 AM
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2. References?
Do you have anything else to support this?
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:24 AM
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4. I wish Nancy, or any Congresscritter, WOULD say this. . .
but who SAID she said it and WHEN and WHERE did she say it?

Just because someone posted it on a message board doesn't make it so. We need corroboration.
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:37 AM
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5. Welcome to DU!!!!!!!!
:toast: :party: :P
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Aminal Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:51 AM
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8. Not finding any other links to this
I'll keep looking, but it's probably just wishfull thinking.
Sorry for posting it before i checked it out, It just got me very excited when reading it.

Thanks for the welcome Spooked911!!!

B)
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:22 AM
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3. Looks like a Good Catch. Gen. Franks apparently let Atta go twice.
Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 11:46 AM by leveymg
I'll check to see if he was in charge of Central Command in '99-00, and will get back on this.
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:38 AM
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6. Now WHY ON EARTH would he do a silly thing like that????
:tinfoilhat:
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:42 AM
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7. Bingo - Franks was CentCom Commander 07/00 - 07/03
He's our guy.

RFE/RL Iraq Report
4 July 2003, Volume 6, Number 29
www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ library/news/iraq/2003/07/29-040703.htm


FRANKS TO TURN THE REIGNS OVER TO ABIZAID NEXT WEEK.

The commander in chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), U.S. General Tommy Franks, will turn command over to Lieutenant General John P. Abizaid in a ceremony in St. Petersburg, Florida on 7 July, CENTCOM announced in a 1 July press release. CENTCOM is based at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Franks, 57, had said that he would retire from military service at the end of the summer. He has headed CENTCOM since July 2000. Abizaid assumed the position of deputy commander (Forward) for Combined Forces Command, U.S. Central Command, in January 2003, according to his biography on http://www.centcom.mil/
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 08:58 AM
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12. Let me get this straight-- first Franks apparently protects four of the
9/11 hijackers before the attacks, then he also lets bin Laden go at Tora Bora.

I think we have one of the 9/11 planners here: General Tommy Franks.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 01:02 PM
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9. Not Atta, BUT al-Qa'ida
With the new information on Atta, and what happened at Tora Bora that is twice Franks "helped" al-Qu'ada.
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philb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:37 PM
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10. There was a lot of info earlier on the help the alleged hijackers got
Most of them had lots of help by U.S. officials

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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 08:55 AM
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11. Like this:
When members of Able Danger made their presentation at command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Weldon said, the legal team "put stickies on the faces of Mohammed Atta on the chart," to reinforce that he was off-limits.

"They said, "You can't talk to Atta because he's here on a green card,"...

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/10/Worldandnation/Reports__911_clue_hid.shtml

JUST a harmless mistake I'm sure!!!!!!!!!!!!
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:14 PM
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13. This seems rather significant to me. Anyone else?
This is no bureaucratic snafu, this is intentional protection of Atta from investigation.

How many more cases like this are out there that haven't been reported yet?
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